The One About Proposals

Summary

Sibling Rivalry: "The One About Proposals"

Release Date: October 13, 2025
Hosts: Bob the Drag Queen & Monét X Change

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Episode Overview

This lively episode of Sibling Rivalry is a celebration and reflection on life’s major milestones—especially proposals and engagement. Monét X Change describes her recent engagement, navigating public reactions, and shares with Bob (and listeners) her honest feelings about the experience. The conversation expands to wedding plans, cultural commentary, candid moments from their own lives, their friendship, and Bob’s own Broadway debut. As always, the duo blends real vulnerability with the razor-sharp wit and affection that makes their podcast so beloved.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Leveling up: The New Soundstage

[01:44 - 03:38]

• Bob and Monét open by celebrating the move into their new soundstage, highlighting how it feels like a new era for the podcast.
• They riff on podcast crossovers with other drag queens (“No Rivalry,” “Yes, Gorge,” “Sibling Gorgery”).

Notable Quote:

“Siving rivalry has officially leveled the fuck up because we are in our new soundstage.” — Monét [01:50]

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2. Monét’s Engagement Announcement & Navigating Public Scrutiny

[04:44 - 07:00]

• Monét discusses getting engaged to Andy after four years, and initial discomfort with discussing the relationship publicly—especially because both she and Bob have white partners and have faced negative commentary online.
• She was hesitant to let negativity "muddy up" her happiness, referencing specific instances of online backlash.
• Bob and Monét share how friends and family reacted to Andy’s proposal plan.

Notable Quotes:

“I had, like, a little hesitation to talk about it because ... the fans ... really make it so uncomfortable and so annoying and so awkward. And I just, like, didn’t want to muddy up my very exciting and happy news...” — Monét [05:08]

“Why is it that every time a Black queen is successful, they have to find a white partner? Obviously, she hates herself. Her and Bob... there they go again.” — Monét [06:06]

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3. Wedding Planning & Guest List

[18:15 - 24:27]

• Monét and Bob joke about eloping, but Monét prefers a longer engagement (Andy is in grad school).
• They think through who might officiate (Monét’s dream pick: RuPaul!), and who’d be invited: Peppermint, Michelle Visage, Rihanna, Selena, and more.
• Discussion about inclusion of pets—Potato (Andy’s dog) will attend, but not as ring bearer.

Notable Quotes:

“Hey, RuPaul, my love, you know I love you so much... it will be an honor, a privilege and a pleasure if you officiated my wedding...” — Monét [18:58]

“Because as Potato's gotten older, Potato has—his behavior has gotten so much better....He has had no accidents in the house for at least a year and a half. And that was, I think, the major reason why I fucking hated him when I first met Potato. Cause he was ruining my home.” — Monét [21:21]

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4. Bob’s Broadway Debut & Dreamgirls Revival

[11:32 - 17:36]

• Both hosts express excitement over Bob’s impending Broadway debut and their united anticipation for the Dreamgirls revival.
• They muse about which Black legends should attend the musical’s opening (Jennifer Holliday, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Loretta Devine, Oprah, and more).
• Delve into the surprising fact that many iconic Black musicals weren't written by Black creatives and discuss the role of representation.

Notable Quote:

“Bob the Drag Queen and I would love to be at the opening night of Dreamgirls.” — Monét [12:32]
“It would be an honor.” — Bob [12:35]

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5. Pop Culture, Music, and Icon Trivia

[25:36 - 28:30]

• The duo banter about Shania Twain, misattributions of songs, and her supposed political leanings.
• They joke about “Sadie” versus “Sade,” and try to name favorite artists for engagement playlists.
• Laughter over dating app "origins stories" (Monét: Hinge; Bob: Grindr).

Notable Quote:

“So they were asking one of the guys...what is your partner’s favorite artist? And he goes, I think it’s Sadie—screaming. And the entire pool was like...You mean Sade?” — Monét [37:35]

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6. Relocation, Safety, and Black Communities Abroad

[31:24 - 41:03]

• Monét brings up Iceland as an ideal (and neutral) country, sharing about LGBTQ+ friendly “Pink Iceland” and the possibility of destination weddings.
• Bob weighs the pros/cons of leaving America, admitting he’d rather stay, even as things feel increasingly “hopeless.”

Notable Quotes:

“I can see why Black people want to move [to Iceland], especially with everything going on in the country...it is a lovely place.” — Monét [39:06]

“It feels a little hopeless to be here sometimes.” — Monét [41:03]

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7. Current Events & Social Commentary

[41:03 - 44:30]

• Discuss U.S. politics, including vaccine mandates and conspiracy theories.
• Commentary on misinformation (e.g., Tylenol and autism), the state of “big pharma,” and media influence.
• Bob and Monét reflect on the emotional toll of constantly witnessing violence and tragedy in the news (Gaza, Israel, etc.) but express the importance of awareness.

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8. Podcast Habits, NPR, and Dream Guests

[44:30 - 46:54]

• Both hosts share their podcast routines—Bob listens daily to “The View,” “The Daily,” “Pod Save America,” and “Native Land Pod,” praising its focus on Black perspectives.
• Bob’s dream podcast guests: Ira Glass and Ayesha Roscoe from NPR.

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9. Environmental Issues: Orphaned Oil Wells

[46:13 - 49:16]

• Bob (sharing from NPR) explains the serious environmental problem of “orphan wells”: abandoned, leaky oil wells with unclear legal responsibility, often impacting unsuspecting homeowners.

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10. Sex, Bodies, and Comedy

[49:39 - 52:00]

• Hilarious and frank discussion about sex toys, temperature play, and personal sexual preferences, including why Monét dislikes “cold” insertables.
• Spirited bickering over who suggested what, culminating in a playful wager about apologies and who remembers best.

Notable Quote:

“Maybe I don’t like it cause it’s cold. Hold the motherfucking presses. Hold the motherfucking presses!” — Monét [50:14]

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11. Rapid-Fire Q&A, Childhood, and Religion

[53:35 - 56:24]

• Rapid question round shows off both hosts’ quick wit and further insight into their histories, families, and upbringing.
• Bob shares a humorous story about “unfriending” a childhood friend for not loving Jesus.

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12. Drag Race, Stage Roles, & Sibling Banter

[56:24 - 59:00]

• Bantering over roles suited for Monét in “Jesus Christ Superstar” and Bob’s reminders about theater knowledge.
• More sibling-like hazing and playful apology drama.

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• On public scrutiny:

  “Why am I in it? I was over here, like, minding my business. I gave a little congratulations and a repost.” — Bob [06:17]

• On emotional labor:

  “Anytime Michelle sees anything online or anything positive... she always sends, ‘You guys look so happy. I was happy for you, like for years now.’ She’s always been so supportive.” — Monét [20:13]

• On sex toys:

  “Maybe I don’t like it ’cause it’s cold. Hold the motherfucking presses!” — Monét [50:14]

• On travel and moving abroad:

  “I do not want to leave America. And I am annoyed at the thought... I really don’t want to.” — Bob [40:14]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• 01:44 - New Soundstage & Podcast Crossover Jokes
• 04:44 - Monét’s Engagement Reveal & Initial Hesitation
• 05:08 - Navigating Interracial Relationship Criticism
• 11:32 - Dreamgirls Broadway Revival & Black Musical History
• 18:58 - Wedding Officiant Dream (RuPaul)
• 21:21 - Dogs & Wedding Guest List
• 37:35 - Sade vs. “Sadie” Pool Story
• 39:06 - Iceland & Black Expat Community
• 41:03 - Feeling Hopeless in the U.S.
• 44:30 - Bob’s Podcast Habits & Dream Guests
• 46:13 - Orphaned Oil Wells Explained
• 50:14 - Monét’s Sex Toy Epiphany
• 53:35 - Rapid-Fire Life Questions
• 56:24 - Childhood Friend’s Religion Story

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Tone & Language

True to form, the conversation is candid, raunchy, vulnerable, and deeply funny. Both Bob and Monét oscillate expertly between heartfelt and hilarious, constantly poking fun at themselves, each other, and the world around them, while never losing sight of the value of honesty and joy in friendship.

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Summary

This episode captures a turning point in the hosts’ lives—new careers, engagement, a new podcast set—while revealing the joys and complexities of love, public visibility, and staying connected to community. Long-time fans will revel in the classic sibling banter and boundary-pushing humor, while newcomers will get a crash course in why Bob and Monét are cherished voices for queer, Black, and drag communities.

Transcript

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My name is Bob the Drag Queen.

[B]

And I'm Monet X Change.

[D]

And this is Sibling Rivalry.

[B]

On this week's episode, we celebrate Bob's Broadway debut.

[D]

We talk about proposals.

[B]

And we find out what made Bob say this.

[D]

It would be an honor. And we found out what made Monet say this.

[B]

Maybe I don't like it. Cause it's cold. Hold the motherfucking presses. Hold the motherfucking presses.

[D]

Hold the presses. Hold the panini presses. Hold the hair presses. Hold the presses.

[B]

Siving rivalry has officially leveled the fuck up because we are in our new soundstage.

[D]

Do you want to shit on any specific podcast while we're here? Do you want to look right into the camera and talk about. Have you and Violet done y' all's episode yet?

[B]

We haven't.

[D]

Hi. Who's scheduling it?

[B]

I thought Jacob was scheduling it.

[D]

I scheduled me, and I reached out to Kennedy and had them schedule the mix.

[A]

They're doing the next episode, so they should be scheduling it.

[B]

And am I doing it here on theirs? I'm doing it at no Gorge. Yeah, got it. Okay. Yeah.

[D]

So I don't know. Y' all have probably seen it already, but me and Gottmik did an episode of no Rivalry.

[B]

Yeah, no Rivalry. And y' all do it here.

[D]

And y' all are doing. Yes, Gorge.

[B]

You did it here. Yeah, got it. Yes, Gorge.

[D]

So you're on yes, Gorge. I was on no Rivalry.

[B]

No, but then what's the yes? It should be. It should be.

[D]

It's no Sibling Gorge and no Rivalry.

[B]

Sibling Gorge. Or we should do sibling gorgery.

[D]

Or should it be no gorgery? I don't know.

[B]

No, it should be sibling gorgery. No rivalry.

[D]

No rivalry. Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. Sibling gorgery is kind of sickening.

[D]

It was fun with Mick, but I can't wait for you to watch the episode.

[B]

Yeah, I can't wait to see it. I mean, Mick is always a good time. I like. I love Hannah McGombick. She's very funny, and she's. She's really dope. But enough about that fucking bitch.

[D]

Do you want to talk about. Do you want to tell anything to bald and beautiful? Well, this is about us.

[B]

This is not about the other podcast.

[D]

You want to say anything to hall and Claw.

[B]

This is about our podcast.

[D]

You want to see the exchange rate?

[B]

This is. I am so impressed by the team who got this. Who put this together. Samuel Minor, who created this. He worked with Kennedy and Patrick and Jay to, like, get all our things aligned, our ducks in order, and I am so impressed.

[D]

I love ducks.

[B]

You do love ducks. And I think this is so beautiful. This has really elevated us and our brand of our pod, and I'm very happy to go on this branding journey with you.

[D]

I'm happy too. It was a long road.

[B]

Oh, it was. It was. It was. Ow.

[D]

It was a long road to get her. Also, we were sitting down, and Monet beat me up today. Y', all, like, hit me so hard on my leg.

[B]

Okay. It was.

[D]

How you gonna tell me that it wasn't that hard? How you gonna tell me that's crazy?

[B]

I mean, I am working out. I'm working out with a new trainer, so sometimes I don't know my own new strength. I'm very strong now.

[D]

Is it. So you just hitting people? You know, things just hit people.

[B]

You got something to Bob. I spent three years of this podcast with you constantly chopping po.

[D]

This. This.

[B]

Oh, you think it was that soft?

[D]

Yes, it was. Not like. Like, how softly I touched Taylor shoulder. We were racing. So you were gonna tell me why you hemmed me up the other day in the dressing room.

[B]

I did not hem you up.

[D]

I was. My feet were off the ground. She's their whole strength. I was terrified for my life, actually. You think I have Terry Crews and you wanted to tell me something, but now we're. We're. Go ahead. I will let you leave. This is your journey.

[B]

Well, everyone watching this knows that I got engaged. Andy and I got engaged after being together for four years. And when, like, the next day, Balm and I did a shoot together, I Was like, oh, by the way, I don't wanna, like, talk about engaging with someone on a podcast. You're like, okay, cool. And then. But Jacob has it on the docket today to discuss. I'm like, I'm okay to talk about. I think if I'm being very honest and very vulnerable.

[D]

You're on popgrave.

[B]

I know. If I'm being very honest, very vulnerable about it. I had, like, a little hesitation to talk about it because of how the fans. Because you and I have white partners. The White King. They really make it so uncomfortable and so annoying and so awkward. And I just, like, didn't want to muddy up my very exciting and happy news with my friends and family and people who do and people who know me parasocially, who love. Who are very excited about the news. To have an influx of people being like. Because there was that. Because a lot of magazines picked it up, even E News and a lot of maga. Can you stop?

[D]

I'm sorry.

[B]

You

[D]

maga. Wow, that's crazy.

[B]

Picked it up. And like, of course, the overwhelming majority is like, oh, my God, Congratulations. That's so beautiful. That's so lovely. But they are, in my opinion, because it's me looking at it. A lot of people also being like, of course. We knew it. Her.

[D]

Why?

[B]

Why is it that every time a black queen is success or black slavery successful, they have to find a white partner? Obviously, she hates herself. Her and Bob. There they go again. Because they always refuse to it.

[D]

Someone said, bob, we got two white partners. I said, one, that's not true. And two, why am I in it?

[B]

I know.

[D]

I said why? I said, I was over here, like, minding my business. I gave a little congratulations and a repost.

[B]

I know.

[D]

Which, by the way, congratulations to you. And it was a really beautiful announcement.

[B]

Thank you. He was saying. He was saying, like, leading up to. He was like. He was like, literally none of your friends, none of your family, no one was reassuring to me. He was like.

[D]

He's like.

[B]

I thought. He's like, I really thought that it might be a no. Because he's like. I asked everyone. He said. I asked Bob. And he was like, well.

[D]

Well, why would he ask? I wasn't sure. In my defense. I wasn't sure.

[B]

Okay, Cardi. In my defense.

[D]

But I didn't say, Monet's gonna say no. I said, I don't really know, to be honest.

[B]

He said, yes. My aunt, she's like, well, it's like, Kevin's gonna do what Kevin wants to do.

[D]

Well, it Sounds like we all know you really well.

[B]

Exactly. I said what you. I said it sounds like everyone knows me very well.

[D]

But no one said you were gonna say no. We were just like, we don't know.

[B]

Right.

[D]

Can I see the ring? Mm. Oh,

[B]

we're good. We're changing that.

[D]

Oh, and it's on there. You won't let me take it off.

[B]

It is a skull too small, Patty Telling the wrong number.

[D]

Or maybe your knuckles grew when you were working out. You're eating your little protein chicken tenders.

[B]

So I had to take it to the jeweler to get it. To get it, like a quarter of an inch bigger.

[D]

How much was it?

[B]

I'm not telling the numbers, but I was like, good job. Cause is that so shading where we got a whole. After all was said and done, the thing happened. We had dated. Okay, well, I was like, tell me.

[D]

Don't bleep it. Just say it.

[B]

No, I'm not telling anyone.

[D]

You're not gonna tell me how much your ring.

[B]

Ask Andy.

[D]

You wouldn't tell me how much your ring costs, Mel.

[B]

Ask Andy. It's his business.

[D]

It's on your finger, but it's his business. No, it's Yalls business. Monae today said, girl, today, Taylor. Today, Taylor gave Monet this little gift. And when Taylor said, I got you, I was in Venice or somewhere in Italy, and I got you a gift. And Monet said, you got us a gift? Is this an engagement gift? And he was like, no, it's just a gift for you. I said, oh, we. Okay.

[B]

Context matters, bitch.

[D]

Did you go to France?

[B]

We context.

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We. We, bitch.

[B]

Context matters. I got engaged very recently. It's my first time seeing Taylor since. And Taylor literally first hugged me and said, omo, congratulations. We hung. And he was like, I got you something. So I was like, oh, is it, like, a thing for me? And. And we also. You literally, literally travel as a voting block with your polycule. You have literally.

[D]

We establish power.

[B]

Y' all travel as one single unit,

[D]

and we eat y' all up, too.

[B]

So, y', all, you are the we Queen of America. With you and your three follicles.

[D]

Let me tell you right now, when the firm rolls up, we wreak havoc. Honey. On game night, ain't no voting us out, honey.

[B]

Well, I think in your polycule, Mike, the one Mikey will. Will descend.

[D]

Yeah, he did. He turned on us.

[B]

I love it.

[D]

Mikey turned on me at the last.

[B]

Mikey will descend.

[D]

But y' all bullied him.

[B]

We don't bully Mikey. Mikey's a very smart Intelligent, you can bully.

[D]

Smart people you can bully. Intelligent people, you can. You can bully. Tell funny people.

[B]

A very strong willed person, Mikey, you're

[D]

all those things and I bully you all the time. Now what?

[B]

You don't believe me?

[D]

Oh, so I'm not the bully. So I'm not Bob the bully?

[B]

Not to me.

[D]

So which one is it? Am I Bob the bully him or not? You said I bully you, so what is it? Did I bully you? Did I never bully you?

[B]

I mean, you haven't done it recently.

[D]

To quote, as we say in season one. She's backtracking.

[B]

Your honor, season one. Is that from season one of Drag

[D]

Race Of Us, Monet. We're still in season four, by the way. Season one, two, and three were in chunks. And then we are still, I think over a hundred episodes later, we are in. I don't even know what episode.

[B]

We're like 200 episodes. But I think, should this be season five?

[D]

This is season. Oh, my God. This is the first episode of season five.

[B]

How exciting is that?

[D]

We need a big moment. Yeah, we need a big moment.

[B]

You know what I mean? I think season four is sudden. When we changed the thing to the graphic, our places split up. So now this new set. We did that photo shoot. That is. We look stunning.

[A]

We do.

[B]

We look incredible. We do. And I think this is the new. This is the. This is the renaissance of the civic rivalry.

[D]

What's Beyonce's next rock and roll album gonna be called?

[B]

Do you think it's rock and roll? Why does everyone think it's rock and roll?

[D]

Well, it's just. What else? What else?

[B]

It could be gospel.

[D]

It won't.

[B]

It could be R and B. Like 90s R&B.

[D]

It won't.

[B]

It could be disco.

[D]

It won't.

[B]

Because I guess renaissance is good. Well, let's go with Morehouse. I mean, if Beyonce did a whole disco era, like, think like Donna Summer, Australian bitch, Kylie Minogue, disco album, Bianca. Beyonce went. I would think of all the big hair and like.

[D]

Oh, I think it would be.

[B]

I would love that.

[D]

Well, I feel like she did disco era in Dreamgirls. That was.

[B]

That wasn't disco. That was 60s.

[D]

There was. It was through the 70s. And when they did One Night Only, she was in disco.

[B]

That's the only. One Night Only is like the only chunk of the movie that 70s.

[D]

Yeah, but she did a little chunk of.

[B]

Did you hear the news?

[D]

And it was 80s too, by the way. I went to 80s as well.

[B]

Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So it didn't really stay in disco. I think it's like a.

[D]

So was in the 60s.

[B]

It started 60s. Did you hear the news, actually?

[D]

What news? I think it is starting the 50s, I think.

[B]

The news.

[D]

What news? The bitch. I listen to the news every day. Which one?

[B]

Broadway. A show that's coming back to.

[D]

Oh, Dreamgirls, bitch. The news, bitch. I'm going to fucking Broadway.

[B]

Oh, yeah, we're gonna talk about Broadway as well.

[D]

Dreamgirls going abroad.

[B]

That's very exciting.

[D]

And I'll be there. Oh, I'll be there. We'll be there.

[B]

I'm saying it right now. Whoever's producing it, we need to be the opening night, please. Bob the Dragonite would like to be the opening night.

[D]

I'll make it nicer. Nicer from the beginning. Because it started off. Whoever.

[B]

Yeah. So, guys, I don't know. I'm sure we can look it up. Who is producing the new Dreamgirls?

[D]

Well, why don't you just move your mouth and then down the line, we'll edit that person's name in as a clip.

[B]

Okay, so this goes out to.

[D]

Yep.

[B]

Bob the Dragon. And I would love to be at the opening night of Dreamworks.

[D]

It would be an honor.

[B]

An honor. A privilege.

[D]

And also, I'll work the door, bitch. I'll do concessions. So I'm so excited for Sonya Friedman

[B]

Productions with Sue Wagner, John Johnson.

[D]

Oh, Lachanze.

[B]

Ugh.

[D]

Lachanze.

[B]

Lachanze, like the singer Lachanze.

[D]

I know Lachanze. No, Lachanze. Yeah, the Broadway actress.

[B]

Yeah, the Broadway actress.

[D]

I know Lachanze works well.

[B]

Lachanze.

[D]

Lachanze, you know, your besties.

[B]

I don't know Lachanze, but I will one time give me a coattail. Lachanze.

[D]

Well, one time I met Lachanze because a friend of mine who was in Angels in America, her husband was in the Donna Summer musical oh, Work. And then I went backstage to meet

[B]

Lachanze, which was Lachan's Beyond.

[D]

Lachanze Beyond. And then Lachanze's daughter was in the original Broadway cast of Jagged Little Pill,

[B]

which is the illustrate.

[D]

And then I sent. And I found out that Lachanze's daughter was a fan of mine. So I sent her a gift on her opening night. Even though I couldn't make it. It was like a signed picture and like some flowers.

[B]

Oh, that's very cute.

[D]

But I couldn't make it that night. Cause I was traveling.

[B]

Okay, well, she may. They may be upset about you for that. So we had to.

[D]

It's Possible, But I'm willing to do what it takes.

[B]

I would love to be there. I would love to be there.

[D]

And sue, girl, first of all, Sonya, I mean, Sonya and Sue and I think Jonathan, John.

[B]

John Johnson, Sonya, Sonia, probably. But first of all, could you imagine the legendariness of black Hollywood that's going

[D]

to be, well, New York, more or less.

[B]

No, I think people are going to travel for Dreamgirls, a musical.

[D]

But I think they should prioritize the Broadway people, though.

[B]

Oh, for sure.

[D]

Broadway people prioritize who should be there.

[B]

Okay. Gianna Davis, Jennifer Holliday. Sheryl Lee Ralph.

[D]

Jennifer Hudson, Loretta Devine.

[B]

Loretta Devine. Who played the original Curtis? I don't know.

[D]

I don't know either.

[B]

Who played the original.

[D]

Colman Domingo will be there.

[B]

Colman Domingo will be there. Oprah will be there.

[D]

I don't think Oprah has any dream

[B]

girl ties, but not dream girl ties, but like, just because it's a legendary show, I don't think Oprah's gonna be there. I think. You don't think Oprah will be at the opening of one of the big, like, what are the big three black musicals? Dream Girls. Dream Girls.

[A]

Color Purple.

[D]

Color Purple. Porgy and Bess.

[B]

Porgy and Bess. Those are the big three. Would you agree?

[D]

Well, she was in the. Once in Island's a big one, but, you know, you know, none of those are written. Well, I think Pork and bas might run by black people maybe.

[B]

No Girl.

[D]

Ira Gershwin and Dream Girl is written by Jewish people.

[B]

Two Jewish people.

[D]

And once. This island's written by. Not Kander Nab. Once. No, no, no. Once on this island is written by. They wrote. They wrote Seussical, the musical. They wrote Rocky, Dr. Seuss. Their names are. It slips me.

[B]

I don't know why. Steven.

[D]

No, no. What is. I can't remember. Aarons and Flaherty. Yes. Aarons and Flaherty wrote once on this island.

[B]

Aaron and Flaherty.

[D]

Yeah. Two different people. Aarons and Flaherty.

[B]

Aarons and Flaherty. Got it.

[D]

Yeah. They wrote once since Island. Were any black musicals written by black people? I think Color Purple was.

[B]

Color Purple was probably.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Was it?

[D]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

[B]

Like, did the book. The book is Alice walker.

[D]

I'm almost 100% positive.

[B]

Several questions.

[D]

What do you say the book is? I'm almost like 90% positive.

[B]

So when you say musical, when you say the book, that would be Alice Walker or someone have to take Alice's story and make. Adapt it for a musical. And then that Becomes the book.

[D]

Well, there's a few things. There is. The book is by Alice Walker. A word. Oh, there's a white woman, Marsha Norman. But then there's a black woman. And then there's a blank profile. Okay. The book. There's an actual book, like the book you buy.

[B]

Right.

[D]

But then also there's the book which is like just the words from the play that's called the book. And then the score, and then it's the play.

[B]

That's what I'm saying. So when. So for the Color Purple, who is

[D]

this Marsha Norman woman? She wrote the book for the Color Purple. She wrote the book?

[A]

Yes, ma'. Am.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

And the black lady, what did she write?

[B]

The music.

[D]

She was one of the three people

[A]

who wrote the music.

[B]

Brenda Russell. Give it up for Brenda Russell. Yeah.

[D]

But, yeah, I mean, I would obviously love to be there. I'm excited because I will have finished my Broadway run.

[B]

Congratulations, by the way.

[D]

Thank you.

[B]

She is. She is.

[D]

She's what?

[B]

You're a Broadway star now?

[D]

Well, I mean, I haven't gone yet, but, yes, I will have been a Broadway actor by the time that Dreamgirls makes it. So I'll be like, I deserve to be. I deserve a. If you go. If you all think, Sue. Sonya.

[B]

Sonya, can you. Getting the name. I think getting the name is right. Sonya.

[D]

You don't know that I'm saying.

[B]

But I know it is not. It's not Sue.

[D]

Well, no, there is a Sue.

[B]

Oh, it's a Sue.

[D]

There's a Sue and a Sonya or a Sonia or a Sonya.

[B]

Got it.

[D]

But. So I don't know which one it is. But I just know. What I do know is that I'm a big fan of all your work that you produce.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

To be honest. So it'd be a treat.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Truly a treat. It was very vulnerable of you to open up about your fears concerning your engagement announcement.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

Which is valid, by the way.

[B]

Oh, yeah. You know for sure.

[D]

And they came.

[B]

They did exactly why I didn't want it to happen. So I'm like, now it's already out there and it's already been a thing.

[D]

I'm like, well, you posted it.

[B]

I know, but people. Because that's because people were already texting me. And there was. Before I posted it, there was a G A Y E magazine. They had posted a thing that we heard Monet X Change Got Married or something like that, or someone mentioned me in a dm. So I feel like I would have got out eventually. People would have seen me with the ring on.

[D]

Are you gonna get eloped?

[B]

No. I don't believe it. I don't want to get it eloped. It will be a long engagement, though, because Andy's in. He just started grad school.

[D]

Getting eloped would be fun, though.

[B]

Let's just go to Vegas and just get married. It doesn't have to be Vegas or anywhere.

[D]

Yeah, I think. I feel like the term elope is specifically when you like a. Like a un. A very shortly planned, very small announcement marriage. Right.

[B]

I thought when you just go and just get married and don't tell anyone. Oh, you don't. You let. You let. Living to people know.

[D]

Yeah, that's what I just said. Like little planning and the very small people know. Very few people know.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

But like, yeah. Eloping. Have you ever officiated?

[B]

No, I never officiated a wedding.

[D]

Who's gonna officiate?

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

I mean, I'm gonna reach out to Ru.

[D]

You think she'll do it?

[B]

I don't know.

[D]

You wanna.

[B]

Hey, RuPaul, my love, you know I love you so much. My honor. Love, Joy. It runs deep for you and it will be an honor, a privilege and a pleasure if you officiated my wedding to my soon to be husband.

[D]

Or she can dj or DJ who's invited, I think.

[B]

But officiating is such a lower lift. She can be in and out. Honestly, you don't have to stay for anything. Literally.

[D]

The car lands.

[B]

We will tie the way.

[D]

Car. Helicopter.

[B]

The helicopter lands.

[D]

Chopper.

[B]

You crawl that little ladder. You walk down the aisle, say the three lines.

[D]

A little dance.

[B]

Say the lines. We'll get you right back in the chopper and you can leave. You can be there for all of five minutes.

[D]

Who's invited?

[B]

That's the thing we're talking about. It's gonna be a big. I don't want. I don't know. The more I think about it, it's gonna be minimally 100 people, which is not a small winning. And I want a small winning.

[D]

Can I name some people and you just tell me if they're invited or not?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Okay. Peppermint.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Assad.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

Michelle Visage.

[B]

Yes.

[D]

She's invited.

[B]

Yeah. I love Michelle. Michelle always. Anytime Michelle sees anything online or anything positive or just see, she always sends like. You guys look so happy. I was happy for you, like for years now. She's always been so supportive.

[D]

Robin.

[B]

Robin. Right.

[D]

Robin. Rihanna Fenty. Of course.

[B]

VIP seating.

[D]

What if she. What if you get to the wedding and Rihanna and they say, if anyone has a reason why these two shouldn't be married and Rihanna stands up, I

[B]

would say, yes, I agree. And I would leave. I was also a little about what if. What if. Where'd you go?

[D]

If you can't name five of my song, Andy, you can't get married.

[B]

This accent, we have to.

[D]

It's spot on.

[B]

You're such a talented actress, Selena. Sorry. You're such a talented actor. You could do a better Caribbean accent. Why does it always sound like Ms. Cleo?

[D]

Me. Nailed it.

[B]

Call me now for your free tarot reading. There is no substitute.

[D]

Is Selena invited?

[B]

Of course. Selena. Literally, she was at the engagement.

[D]

Can Potato be there?

[B]

No. No, I'm kidding, actually. So I would literally talk to any. The ring bearer about it this morning. I'm really turning to hell with Potato. Because as Potatoes gotten.

[D]

You're turning what?

[B]

I've turned a tide with Potato.

[D]

Got it.

[B]

Because as Potato's gotten older, Potato has. His behavior has gotten so much better.

[D]

Yeah, dogs calm down when they get a little bit older.

[B]

Yeah. Like, he has had no accidents in the house for at least a year and a half. And that was, I think, the major reason why I fucking hated him when I first met Potato. Cause he was ruining my home.

[D]

He did try to eat a small child recently.

[B]

A small child? He's not trying to eat a small child.

[D]

He lunged to attack a small child.

[B]

I will say two things. One, it's a kid, right? So I get like. They don't know to, like, you know, to ask the owner. They can pet. Like, kids are just gonna do that. But I think that you should not pet people's dogs.

[D]

I don't think they were petting. I think the door opened and Potato went bananas or.

[B]

I don't know. She went and went.

[D]

No, they just opened the door. Potato was like. Potato was like, kill.

[B]

So Potato doesn't, like, seek and destroy. Potato doesn't like older people. It doesn't like children. I don't know why that is. Again, I've only known Potato for three years. Four years. But Potato doesn't like small people. He doesn't like children, and he doesn't like old people. I don't know why that is. Who's old that he's barked at Andy's aunt.

[D]

How was he with your grandmother?

[B]

She was fine. But my grandmother also didn't try to pet him or handle him. He snapped at Andy's aunt because he was in Andy's lap, and she bent over and was like, hi, little doggies.

[D]

But he's doing better now.

[B]

He's doing much better.

[D]

Can Cody come?

[B]

No. Potato's the only dog that would be allowed.

[D]

Cody is a lovely dog.

[B]

That doesn't say he's not a lovely dog. He doesn't invite my wedding, though.

[D]

Is this a dog rule or is this a Cody rule?

[B]

This is a dog rule.

[D]

Cause it doesn't have to be a dog rule because there's a dog there.

[B]

Well, because it's literally Andy's child.

[D]

So there's a dog exception to the

[B]

dog rule because he is our dog. So he has to be there for Andy's.

[D]

Will Colleen be there?

[B]

No.

[D]

Yeah. I can't imagine she'd be there.

[B]

No.

[D]

She wouldn't be paying attention. She'd be hiding under something. She's screaming, literally.

[B]

It's so vocal.

[D]

You should make Potato the ring bearer.

[B]

No.

[D]

Why?

[B]

Because that's a role that I want for a person. I don't want Potato be the ring bearer.

[D]

Well, who's going to be ring bearer?

[B]

First of all, you think we can get potatoes to walk down the aisle?

[D]

No. No.

[B]

Exactly.

[D]

But if you put a few treats on the way, he won't. Is he like treats?

[B]

He does like. Potato is greedy.

[D]

I've never seen him be greedy.

[B]

Oh, he is greedy.

[D]

He's a sweet dog. I like Potato a lot.

[B]

Anytime I like frill Tree tot to feed Colleen, I can't even do that. Cause I throw one out for him. Throw out for her. He'll eat his. And by the time he'll come and eat Colleen's too. Cause cats don't. They're not really quick.

[D]

Well, I like that Potato likes to cuddle with me. That's what I like about Potato.

[B]

He's a very cuddly dog. Cause Potato's a pandemic dog. So he's very like. He wants to be squished and hugged and with the person all the time.

[D]

But I don't know what age I'm gonna hit when he starts to attack.

[B]

You're the you.

[D]

I think you're almost there if.

[B]

What's the name? Come over.

[D]

I know I'm good.

[A]

Who.

[D]

We'll leave it at that.

[B]

BTDQ from season eight.

[D]

We'll leave it. We'll leave it at that.

[B]

What song did you put that in? BTDQ from season eight.

[D]

That was on my. I did a super queen.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

BDDQ from season eight. Those holes. How to dominate. And I said a purse first in a game with a stamp from Rewind around the World.

[B]

Who the Fuck is you?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

No, you said, who the fuck is you?

[D]

Yeah, who the fuck is you? Honestly, I ate with that one.

[B]

That was a good line. That was a good line. You haven't done one in a while. Why do you think that is?

[D]

A song? Yeah, I just released a song.

[B]

No, like a diss track or taking.

[D]

It wasn't a diss track.

[B]

Or taking a song for one of the finale. Like, you didn't do it this year. You didn't do it last year. Oh, well, the finale song, adding your own verse.

[D]

Well, last time I did a diss track was with Maddie or mib. Matty. Yeah, Maddie was the last diss track I did. So that was like, less than a year ago. Maybe a little more than a year ago. Yeah. Yeah, I was gonna do one with. With what's her name? Eagle Girl. She was the eagle. We. Malaysia Baby doll Fox.

[B]

Oh, she's an eagle.

[D]

Because she was the eagle at the. At the reunion or at the step down.

[B]

Is that what she was?

[D]

Yeah, she was an. Oh, she was a bald eagle.

[B]

Oh, she was a turkey.

[D]

She's a bald eagle. But then she released it, and it was the weekend of my mom's funeral, and I was like, I don't have time to respond.

[B]

Thank God you didn't do that.

[D]

Did you hear when Cardi B said a gun? Top of my head and head. Name five Bia songs. Bow I'm dead.

[B]

I couldn't name one if Bia was in this room. Yeah, I don't know what she looks like. Can you put up a picture of Bia?

[D]

You know, something I really enjoyed doing on the road when I was touring, because he has so many international. I don't know this woman. I would. I would do the thing where I would. I would take world leaders, or it'd be like a picture of Bill Clinton and three guys who just kind of look like Bill Clinton. And I asked the French people, do you know which one of these is Bill Clinton?

[B]

Like, what, you go on, like, outside?

[D]

No, it was backstage.

[B]

Oh, got it.

[D]

So. So it'd be like, all right, this is Justin Trudeau and three cowboys. Because Justin Trudeau don't have cowboys in time. And I'm like, which one of these is Justin Trudeau?

[B]

Is he from Calgary? I don't know where he's from, you know, because Calgary is very, like. It's a part of Canada that's very like, Texas. Like, they like. It's. It's a lot of. Well, besides, obviously, the major city of this Calgary, all the Surrounding towns are a little red, and they love cowboy culture there. Like, it's like a big thing there. Sinatra Twain's from Canada and Calgary.

[D]

I wonder where Shania Twain is from.

[B]

The first cut is the deep. Is that her?

[D]

I don't know. That is when I think Shania Twain, I think, who's bed have your boobs?

[B]

Bed, Man, I feel like a woman is what you think about Shania Twain.

[D]

I mean, the first one.

[B]

That is Shania Twain. Oh, Cheryl Crow.

[D]

Damn. You were so loud. Incredibly, incredibly loud and extremely wrong. I mean, I think, who's better? Who boots better than man? I feel like a woman. And they don't impress me much.

[B]

That don't impress me.

[D]

That don't impress me much. Now, don't get me wrong. Yeah, I think that's all right. But that won't keep me warm in the middle of the night.

[B]

I love that.

[D]

She was a school teacher.

[B]

Was she? Apparently Shania Twain was. Shania Twain was a school. Was she like, isn't she a maga? A little maga? I think so.

[D]

Can Canadians be maga?

[B]

I mean, they can be conservative. I know she ain't voting no Shania Twain.

[A]

No, no.

[D]

Go away.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

No, no, no.

[B]

Go back to what you said with your man. See, this is how Bob and Jacob act. Jacob was Googling Ishaania twin, a teacher. And as soon as it said, Jacob was like, switch up the search.

[D]

First of all, we weren't arguing about whether she was Kuza. I said, I think she was. I said, I'm pretty sure we weren't even arguing about that.

[B]

I didn't say we were arguing.

[D]

You love to get a little point because you need them.

[B]

I'm so Hex. I'm so happy to see you.

[D]

Once the homo hotel gets you together.

[B]

I'm so happy to see you.

[D]

See you as well.

[B]

Today. Not today.

[D]

Today specifically.

[B]

I have to qualify on there. Today is crazy.

[D]

Today specifically. Oh, my God. Today specifically.

[B]

Yes, Bob, I can't wait for you to get married.

[D]

If you. I mean, I probably won't, but I maybe will, who knows? One day. Yeah, you come in then, and you're like, monet's got marriage fever. She was like, when are you and Jacob getting married?

[B]

Why not?

[D]

I was like, girl. Monet was literally. I was driving down the street. I got a call from Monet. She's like, so when are you taking a tie the knot?

[B]

Okay, so I have a question.

[D]

I can't be the only one. I was like, you're not the only one.

[B]

So if you three of our.

[D]

Two of our friends have been married.

[B]

Two?

[D]

Mitch and Mateo are married.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[D]

And Free.

[A]

That's crazy.

[D]

Super secret. He's married. Super secret marriage.

[B]

Wow. The free ratio is crazy, girl.

[D]

No. Free.

[A]

Did you.

[D]

And I know you. Listen, Free, with your little super secret marriage.

[B]

He literally showed us a ring before he did it.

[D]

But the wedding. None of us got invited to the wedding. That is crazy.

[B]

We're not invited to the wedding.

[D]

Are you invited to your wedding?

[B]

Of course I invite him. I mean. But here's the thing. It'll probably be over here on the west coast, so we have to travel. There's a small part of.

[D]

You're both from the East Coast.

[B]

Yeah, but I would do it over here because the weather. The east coast weather is too. It's not reliable here, like, 80% chance it's going to be nice weather.

[D]

Yeah. Catch a civilian. Rivalry. Fam. Reunion. Thunder. Yeah.

[B]

Like, no. There's a small part of me. A little part of me.

[D]

Tiny part of me. Your butthole.

[B]

I thought about doing it in Iceland, but getting everyone to come to Iceland is insane.

[D]

I'm not going. Bob. I'm not going Iceland. I would like for you to do it in California. That'd be really nice.

[B]

But Iceland weddings.

[D]

I would go to New York in the summer.

[B]

They're beautiful. And it looks like.

[D]

What do you. What are you. You not Icelandic? What? Is Bjork going to be there?

[B]

No. So you. When I went to Iceland, I mean.

[D]

It is pronounced Bjork. Yeah. To those of you who were M. I. D. M's.

[B]

Well, that's. Cause they're ignorant. Like, the umlaut over the O is. That's the. That is a sound when you have the O with the two dots, y', all, that's called an umlaut.

[D]

It's.

[B]

That's the sound that makes. That's the.

[D]

I also justified. Margaret Cho says she also thought that she. No, she didn't. She also agreed that.

[B]

I saw that on your thing, and I'm like. Well, that's okay for Margaret to say that.

[D]

It's not for you to say that. It's not okay. And it's not for you to say that's not okay.

[B]

Anyway.

[D]

Yeah. Wake that up. So, in fact, let's take a break.

[C]

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[D]

And we're black.

[B]

So. Do you know about my whole Iceland thing? When I went to Iceland?

[D]

Yeah. You didn't stop talking about it.

[B]

No, I didn't.

[D]

You were obsessed. Maybe not on the pod, but in real life. You were like. You know, there's a whole thing about black people moving to Iceland too.

[B]

Is it?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Well, okay. So Iceland, you know, so there's a list. Jacob King. Look it up. The list of the top 10.

[D]

Jesus Christ. When was this? This was. Go to the day, Digger. December. What?

[B]

December 23rd.

[D]

Oh, Jesus Christ.

[B]

My name.

[D]

My mom was alive when you posted this. You stop. What if she just saw this?

[B]

You've always. Miss Martha saw me in many a compromising position.

[D]

She seen Naomi Smalls literally completely button butt naked. New. With a greasy dick.

[B]

Really?

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

When she did. When we did her show.

[D]

No, when we. When we all went to Atlanta together on the season eight tour.

[B]

Oh, got it.

[D]

Nan was in the dressing room and she had just untucked and she went and hugged my mom. Yeah.

[B]

I was feeling.

[D]

I was like naked. I was like, oh,

[B]

hilarious.

[D]

I think she might have been tucked. It was still tucked, I believe.

[B]

What to say.

[D]

No, the butt naked greasy dick is a lot. But she was not wearing any clothes except tape.

[B]

Oh, my God. That's when I was in my. I was in my nail era. That's how I was getting my tips done.

[D]

That looks crazy. I look crazy. Mona, this is how you look right now. Except you're wearing nails.

[B]

I know, the nails. That's insane. The nails is like being fully out of attraction. Having the dips.

[D]

I had a claw era. Yeah, I was. I had a choir.

[B]

I wouldn't go.

[D]

There's a whole thing of, like, white people moving. Would you ever leave the United States?

[B]

You know, the more and more, like, things get crazy here, like, I do. I think the Jimmy Kimmel thing was a big eye opening thing. And also I think the. Wait, wait, let me talk about Iceland real quick. So there's a list of Jacob. He look up. It's like the. It's like the top 10 safest. Like the safest places in the world. And Iceland is number one. Iceland is the exit Sorry, not safest. Like, countries that don't. Safe and, like, they don't have any beef with anyone. Like, they're. I don't know what the name, what the list.

[D]

Neutral.

[B]

Maybe it wasn't. It was something. But anyway, Isla is at the top of this list. And after going to Islam, I can see why. Again, not saying I'm sure.

[D]

Unless you take a picture of Bjork.

[B]

Oh, she'll beat you up.

[D]

You didn't know about Bjerg beating up a photographer?

[B]

But, I mean, I think that's. I thought that was just paparazzi.

[D]

No, Bjork. But Bjork beat up a paparazzo.

[B]

Got it.

[D]

Like, beat her up.

[B]

Paparazzi is, like, over there in the uk. I know American paparazzi's in Illinois. You see Justin Bieber on the thing, and he's, like, fighting one. But in the uk, girl, apparently, the paparazzi, they are relentless. The paps, they're, like, really abusive to the celebrities there.

[D]

So one time I was walking to the airport in Heathrow and all these. I mean, the paparazzi swarmed, and it was flashing so aggressively. I was like,

[B]

word.

[D]

And then immediately Bebe Rexha walks past me. I don't know who Bebe Rexa was, but I remember being like, oh, really?

[B]

Oh.

[D]

Oh. They were swarming her. Like, it was. It was insane. She couldn't even. It was. It was really wild.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And then I was in Italy and I saw Donatello Versace waiting for an Uber on the street. No, she was up at the top. Just wait. Literally waiting for Uber.

[B]

An Uber by herself?

[D]

Yeah, One bag. One rolling bag by herself. Making. Checking to see if her Uber was coming by hers alone. That's crazy and completely true. I was like, that's how the. I remember being like, that looks like Donatella Versace. Cause no one looks like Donatella Versace.

[B]

That's not a Versace. That's why, like, sometimes, like, you know, when I get to lax, this is like a year and a half ago, maybe, I think. I think I have a tire patty with me. And so when I get off of lax. When you get off of lax, you can either get curbside service right outside the baggage claim if you call a black car, or you can take the shuttle, go to Ubertown, or walk to Uberville, if you're walking. Cause Delta is terminal three. Walking to it is maybe 10 minutes, as opposed to waiting for the shuttle bus and going all the way around. So I just. As a. Not as a rule, but 98% of the time I'm taking bags and just walking to Uberville because a curbside black car service from LAX is literally sometimes triple the price of what it is from getting it at Ubertown. I'm like, so why am I paying $202 where I can get a $75 Uber and just walk in my ass? And also, it's more exercise, I tell myself in my mind, and it's like, whatever. So.

[D]

Well, I would say one thing is sometimes when you get the Uber xls from Uberville, they play in your face.

[B]

What do you mean?

[D]

They be like, oh, this is an xl. This Fiat is an xl.

[B]

Oh, yeah, they do do that sometimes. Or, well, it's like comforter. Comfort be playing with you. Comfort is supposed to be a little extra room.

[D]

And I have so many bags.

[B]

Yeah. So one time a fan told me, waiting at Uberville for a thing and then literally tweeted later. Be like, wow, things must be hard. Sawmorne. Waiting for an Uber at LAX today at Uber, I'm like, no.

[D]

Okay. I posted a picture from Planet Fitness, and they were like, damn, I do that sometime, too.

[B]

They're like, really? Girl. Planet Fitness? I'm like, what is wrong with y'? All? What do y' all think? Like, that kind of thing.

[D]

Also, if times are hard, what of it?

[B]

Right? True.

[D]

Just to be clear, let's just say I am falling on hard times. Is that a crime?

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

Is it a crime?

[B]

Who sings that?

[D]

Sade.

[B]

Yeah. Oh, God. I was on the cruise, and they were doing one of the games, the pool games. They were playing couples. What's the Newlywed Game? And then.

[D]

So you're perfect for this game, right? I know.

[B]

So they were asking one of the guys. One of the guys left, and they asked him, what is your partner's. This was. This was the white guy asking about his. They were asking questions about his partner, who was. Who was a black. A black. A black guy. And then they goes, well, who's. Who's your part. Who's your partner's favorite artist? And he goes, I think it's Sadie screaming. And the entire pool was like. It was like. And so I would yell, you mean Sade?

[D]

He's like, yeah, yeah, that one.

[B]

Shadee. I was like, sadie is crazy.

[D]

So when you were getting proposed to. They were like, what song should we play? If Monet says yes, who's her? Can you put it down? I'm talking about Colleen. They were like, what. What song should we play? Like, who's my next favorite artist? And then we were like, oh, well, it's Sza. But you. But that SZA doesn't make the kind of SZA doesn't make. What are you gonna play? Weeknda has Happy Go Lucky music. I can't name one.

[B]

So why'd you ask?

[D]

Taylor?

[B]

Taylor would.

[D]

Well, you listen to sza. Well, I chose. We found love in Hopeless Place.

[B]

That was a good one. But you can.

[D]

And also. It's also poignant. And you also. I mean, we also.

[B]

We didn't find love in a hopeless place. We didn't fall in love in a club.

[D]

You live in la. Did y' all go to Hot Dog?

[A]

Didn't you meet on Grindr?

[B]

No, we did not meet on Grindr. We met on Hinge.

[C]

Hopeless.

[D]

Even more hopeless.

[B]

It's not hopeless. Hinge is a place most of my friends who. Okay, I'm not gonna say most, but. But Andy and I have about three or four couple friends that found their partners on Hinge as opposed to other places.

[D]

I found both my partners on Grindr.

[B]

Really?

[D]

Yeah. Without loving.

[B]

Now that's a homeless place. Wait, wait, wait.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[B]

We're interested.

[D]

And a lot of people find their loves on Grindr.

[B]

Intrusive memory fashion. We have safest places. Iceland.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

So Iceland is at the top of the street. Jesus Christ. I can see why black people want to move there, especially with everything going on in the country, like, it feels like. And being there, like, it is a lovely place. So when I went there, December 2023, I met the lovely ladies of Pink Iceland, Birna and her wife. And they are, first of all, the queer community. They've cultivated their little slice of queer community there is so, so, so beautiful, y'. All. They are everything and so sweet and so kind. And I fucking love, love, love.

[D]

These ladies shout out to Pink Ice.

[B]

Pink Iceland.

[D]

And I just wanted to do a.

[B]

And they do. And a lot of people do destination weddings.

[D]

A black version called blackpink Ice, though.

[B]

So I don't have to be. Kimchi has to do that.

[D]

She's not black.

[B]

Blackpink is a Korean K pop group.

[D]

But it has to be. So if. If Kimchi has a child with a black woman, that person can do and. And is raised in Iceland. That person can be blackpink. Guys, this is a long time in the making. And by the end of, like, who the fuck is it? What's a blackpink? But I do not. I do not want to leave America. And I am annoyed at the thought of having to do. Sounds really annoying.

[B]

Wait, so you don't want to. But you would is what you're saying.

[D]

Maybe, but I really don't want to. I really would like to stress how much I really don't want to. I don't have anything outside of the US anything. I have a few friends but like I have a few Canadian friends, some UK friends, some Australian friends, some South American friends.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. But I think.

[D]

And all my African friends live stateside.

[B]

But being 10 months into this year again, which is by design, that's why they keep on flooding the zone and giving us all these things that feel like make us feel hopeless. It maybe I think it does feel like oftentimes feels like this country is a hopeless thing. And this thing a little bit this country is. It feels a little hopeless to be here sometimes.

[D]

But is it?

[B]

I don't know my honest answer today asking this question. I don't know. Cause I feel like. But it's not just this country. When I see the atrocities happening in the Middle east and in the Middle east with Israel and Gaza and how the UN voted again and America said no, we're not going to help Gaza, we're now the only country siding with Israel.

[D]

Yeah, it's crazy like.

[B]

And I keep on and I'm happy because it's raising my awareness of people groups like Zateo and other groups showing the news of Gaza and how these people are living. Because I feel like, you know, naturally I wanted to be like, oh my God, this is too much for me. I can't, I need to find peace. But I'm like, no, I don't want to know. Not, I don't want to know peace. But I want to keep on having this in the forefront of my mind. So it doesn't, I mean I think the risk of that, it normalizes it a little bit. Not as shocking anymore. Cuz you see it so often and I'm seeing it a lot.

[D]

It's crazy that we're no longer shook, shattered or shorn.

[B]

I know by how gruesome it is.

[D]

Did you also see that vaccine mandates are being rolled back very, very severely?

[B]

I know he, the thing he said

[D]

about Tylenol and I'm wondering like is Tylenol going to fight for their life?

[B]

They can sue him, but they won't sue cuz they're scared to.

[D]

But why would they be scared? They're. They, they're big pharma. Yeah, but don't they have all the money in the world? Doesn't big pharma have all the money?

[B]

But I think with the FDA and all, like, the free. Who. Like, I feel like. I feel like they. They're probably because he is appointed. I'm sure he's appointed some. A tiktoker to head the fda. So I think they're afraid if they sue him.

[D]

What? What? What?

[B]

He will? How he will. What's the word I'm looking for? Not recal.

[D]

Well, there's. So there's this thing where they were talking basically about how Tylenol causes autism,

[B]

which is not true. There's literally. Literally no evidence of that.

[D]

And then they were basically going on about how he's cured autism now. It was madness. There was a lot going on.

[B]

Yeah, I can't. I can't.

[D]

But I mean, that being said.

[B]

But what he doesn't have is a new civil robbery set. And he could never.

[D]

He probably could. Do you remember a while back. Oh, my God, I can't. You know, I'm gonna misremember it. I know I am. But, like, some Florida politician or like, police commissioner or something was trying to build this, like, media complex in Florida or maybe Texas media media complex that does, like, podcasts and like, conservative podcasts and, like, TV shows and all this shit. I think he was basically trying to build the new. Another Daily Wire, essentially. But I never heard anything from it again. So I don't. I hate that I even brought it up, but I remember being like. That was like a. And it was like he. It was this, like, man who had all this money, and he built this, like. He bought out, like, basically, like a Walmart base, like a huge building, like a huge office building, and turned into this, like, this big media complex. And he also had something to do with pharmaceuticals. I was reading about it. I was listening to it. I listened to npr. I know I said this every day. Every single day. And I listen to this American a lot. No, I listen to this one once a week. I listen to.

[B]

No, the Daily.

[D]

No, I listen to up first.

[B]

Oh, yeah, right.

[D]

And I listen to Consider this every single morning. So are you still, like, a podcast when you were, like, out and about? Kind of.

[A]

Every morning?

[B]

Every day. So the View. I listen to the View. I listen to the Daily. The Story, and I listen to Pontique America and Nativeland Podcast.

[D]

What?

[B]

Oh, my God. With Angela Rai.

[D]

It's called Native Land Pod.

[B]

No, the company's Native Land podcast. I don't know why I'm blanking the name right now. Every morning. Okay. It is Native land Pod under iHeartRadio. Nativeland Pod. With Angela Rai, Tiffany Cross. And Andrew Gillum.

[D]

We should invite some of these people to the pod.

[B]

I love Angela Rye. I love. I mean, I love all of them. They're great. They're really formative. They center their. Obviously they talk about all the big stories, but also with a lens because they are three black people of how it is affecting the black community and our relation to how this news works with our community.

[D]

If I could do a call to two specific people at NPR who I would love to have on the podcast, I don't think I'd ever get them, but I would love to. One, Ira Glass. I would love to have Ira Glass over here at Sibling Rivalry. And two, Aisha Roscoe. Aisha Roscoe is becoming my. Aisha Roscoe does a Sunday report every Sunday on this American Live. I mean, on. On up first. On up first she does a center report. And I am, like, currently obsessed with Aisha Rosco. I learned so much about oil. What do you call them? Rigs? Okay, so when oil rigs die. So, okay, I learned a lot. So basically, like a stripped rig or strip is basically when.

[B]

What do you mean? That thing that goes like this, they

[D]

come in all different shapes and sizes.

[B]

Because when I think of that, I think about the thing that's.

[D]

They all come in different shapes and sizes. So when you have an orphan well is basically what happens when no one claims this well. Like this well, we have gotten all we can out of this. It is all done. And this well, it ain't. It's not mine.

[B]

It's just a big ass hole in the ground. And they were getting oil from.

[D]

Sometimes it is just a small pole coming out of the ground. Sometimes it is. You can't even see it, but it is slowly emitting gas into the air. It's like it's leaking and it's leaking, including polluting the area. There are apparently hundreds of thousands of orphan wells.

[B]

So why don't we. Okay, so here's the question. Why don't we plug it up?

[D]

Because it cost anywhere from 15,000 to $200,000 to plug in oil.

[B]

Well, okay, well, you. When you extract all that oil you have gotten.

[D]

But it's not mine.

[B]

Millions of dollars, but it's not mine.

[A]

See?

[B]

So why don't we set up. Why isn't there a man like, why isn't there a law that you just cannot leave it unplugged?

[D]

So there are laws, but it's easy to just be like, that ain't my oil. Well, I don't know what y' all talking about. Especially because people license the land. So, you know, like, sometimes you'll license the land and then people are fracking or doing stuff on your land, but then you don't know. No, you know, but it's not yours. It's your land. It's not your well.

[B]

So the law should be like. Because then to force the people who own the land to keep track of it, if. If it's not plugged up, you have to pay for it.

[D]

So this one lady had a orphan well in her front yard, and it started leaking. It started ruining her front yard. The well started leaking.

[B]

When you say leaking, like oil's coming up.

[D]

Yeah, coming up. And kind of like going into the. Going into your soil.

[B]

Got it.

[D]

Ruining your soil and possibly contaminating your drinking water, also making it toxic for your pets and your children and the air. But then she had to pay herself to get the well filled.

[B]

She had to pay herself.

[D]

She had to pay because on her land. But then she got in contact with this company that. That doesn't. There was this company that. There's a company that does those. There's a company that will, like, they. They plug up all these wells every year, but they can't do the me. But they're like. They're like allegedly estimated hundreds of thousands of orphan wells. Monet. Hundreds of thousands.

[B]

I mean, that makes sense. So we're watching the video of this woman and how the oil is just, like, in her. In her yard. That's crazy. So she bought this home and she didn't know this was there. And now she's living there and it's happening.

[D]

She bought the home, though. But sometimes when you plug them, they come unplugged because sometimes people are not plugging them properly. So technology. They were plugging them years ago. Sometimes they just fill it with sawdust. They fill it with wood. They fill it with so and so. But now they're doing this concrete thing. I know. I don't know if our listeners are even remotely interested in this. They fill in with this concrete stuff. When you fill with concrete, this is better than just putting oil. I mean, putting sawdust or wood down there.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

And then they can become unclogged over time. They can become un unplugged over time.

[B]

I thought about putting sawdust in my hole before.

[D]

And how did that work out for you?

[B]

I thought about it. I didn't do it.

[D]

Where were you at? I want to hear the full. The full story.

[B]

I was in a basement in a city. I'm not gonna say the City.

[D]

And I'm sorry, why are you. Why are you keeping the anonymity of the city? So.

[B]

Because I don't want to spill anyone's tea.

[D]

So you think, how small is this, the city, that it can go back to one person?

[B]

That's the question.

[D]

Are you doing butt play?

[B]

I don't like things. I don't like things in my ass that are not a warm body part. Not even fingering. I don't like getting fingered like that. I'm like, you just play this girl. Just like. I mean, but so here's the dichotomy there is that you do want to get played with someone. So someone's opening you up. So not just, like fucking just going in. But I don't necessarily find it pleasurable to have someone just back there poke around with a plastic dildo or their fingers. I'm like, just.

[D]

So what about a glass dildo?

[B]

No, I don't want any.

[D]

What about a warm.

[B]

You know, I've never had a glass dildo, actually.

[D]

Or they warm it up.

[B]

That might be fun.

[D]

What if they warm it up?

[B]

That might be.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[B]

I never thought about that.

[D]

La, la la. Warm it up and then they can put it in your butthole.

[B]

That's such a good idea. Maybe I don't like it cause it's cold. But also I just don't like this feeling of fingers. Like, I don't like that. So I think you know what the answer is. A warm or a glass dildo.

[D]

I mean, if you don't. A glass dill could be particularly cold.

[B]

I was saying, but can you just. If you just put it in like a hot, warm, like, glass.

[D]

I would say warm glass.

[B]

Yeah. Not hot.

[D]

I don't think you want something hot on your asshole.

[B]

Well, what conducts heat more?

[D]

Rubber or glass conducts heat.

[B]

Yeah, glass. Glass, like, better than grubber because the

[D]

rubber would just melt.

[B]

Right. But what does it faster? Like if. If we had.

[D]

I mean, I'm assuming it's glass. Because glass, like. Like if you. If you warm up rubber, it'll just start melting.

[B]

Glass doodles can be used for temperature play because they are able to be heated and cooled safely while the glass.

[D]

Yeah, you don't want to warm up rubber and put it in your asshole.

[B]

You don't want to have rubber first.

[D]

I'm the one that said glass first.

[B]

No, you said rubber. I said rewind.

[D]

I brought up the glass conversation. I'm the one who brought it up.

[B]

No, you rubber, then. You said glass later. But I didn't Say any. You just. So you said rubber first. I was like, oh, yeah, that'll be nice. A rubber dildo. You know what, Jay, please rewind the tape.

[D]

Please do.

[B]

And if I'm wrong, I apologize.

[D]

It is the new season. It is the welcome to season five. Hey, I'll wait till the third apology till I take your hand. Oh, my God. The third one is when I finally touch her.

[B]

Do you think I'll ever get an apology from you?

[D]

I have apologies. It's on camera.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[D]

And you remember when I went through all the texts where I was saying sorry? You don't remember all those.

[B]

Yeah.

[D]

You are sorry with your selective memory.

[B]

You are sorry. You're a sorry.

[D]

We heard you the first time. You were sorry with your little selective ass memory.

[B]

Sorry, sorry, ass negro.

[D]

So the question is, I'm. I'm glad that I'm finally getting my information. I know you ain't talking. I know you ain't talking.

[B]

So we both stutter.

[D]

But one of us said, it's a little more.

[B]

This is true.

[D]

It is.

[B]

And one of us said, it's true.

[D]

And one of us said, that was me doing you.

[B]

No, it wasn't. That was natural. Rewind the tape. And one of us is an ableist.

[D]

Yeah, you with my colorblindness every time.

[B]

And you with my speech impediment.

[D]

Yeah, because it's funny when you do it. Because when you stutter, it's funny.

[B]

And it's funny. You think that this is blue.

[D]

I don't think it's funny.

[B]

It's funny. You think this shit is purple.

[D]

And every time you get it, it tickles me. The way that your vocal cords get tickled when you get something to work.

[B]

Vocal cords are not causing stammering, so you're already wrong because you don't understand how the body works when that's fine.

[D]

Makes me laugh.

[B]

Clearly.

[D]

And when they drag you. Clearly. I like it.

[B]

Clearly.

[D]

Do you think you can make it the rest of the podcast without stuttering?

[B]

For sure.

[D]

100%.

[B]

100%.

[D]

And what happens if you do?

[B]

What happens if I do?

[D]

Making a nosebleed. Trying to.

[B]

If I don't stutter? I don't know. What do you want to wager?

[D]

I feel like. I'm not on trial. I said that wasn't a stutter. Oh, my God, Jay, this is the third rewind, rewind. I'm not on trial. You're on trial here. You're on trial here.

[B]

I mean, I'm the cardi b of this trial, baby.

[D]

Did you hear a Gayle King?

[B]

No, I did not watch.

[D]

I haven't listened to the album yet.

[B]

I haven't either.

[D]

I have not listened to. So we're gonna see how you're doing. I'm gonna ask you some rapid fire questions.

[B]

Oh, maybe.

[D]

And we're gonna see how well you can do it. Not stuttering. Okay, what are the rapid fryer questions? What day is today? Like the date?

[B]

I don't know today's date.

[D]

Do you know the day of the week it is?

[B]

I know that today is Tuesday.

[D]

What color is your car?

[B]

My car is black.

[D]

Where were you born?

[B]

I was born in Brooklyn, New York.

[D]

How many siblings do you have?

[B]

I have two.

[D]

What's your mom's name?

[B]

June.

[D]

Any animals you had growing up? Any animals you had growing up?

[B]

Dogs.

[D]

What kind of animals?

[B]

Dogs.

[D]

Just one dog? You had nothing else?

[B]

You said what kind of animals?

[D]

But what you'd had another kind of animals?

[B]

No, it's just dogs.

[D]

What kind of animals do you have right now?

[B]

I have a dog and a cat.

[D]

A dog and a cat. What are their names?

[B]

Colleen and Potato.

[D]

What do you feed the cat? Who do you feed the cat? I wanna know what do you feed the cat?

[B]

Cat food.

[D]

Specifically the brand Hillsides diet. Oh, really? Nice. Would you work out today?

[B]

You can't work out.

[D]

Did you work out today?

[B]

I did.

[D]

Okay, now you try to give me some questions. Let's see how we do. You ready? Go.

[B]

Wait. What?

[D]

Fire away.

[B]

Where are you from?

[D]

I'm from Columbus, Georgia.

[B]

Where were you born?

[D]

Columbus, Georgia.

[B]

Where you go to college?

[D]

Columbus, Georgia.

[B]

Who's your sister?

[D]

I don't have a sister.

[B]

Do you have a brother?

[D]

I do have two.

[B]

What's his name?

[D]

Caleb and Justin. Caleb's my younger brother Justin. My older brother. 19 and 41. I have a lot of aunts. My aunt Hazel, My aunt Lisa. My aunt Stephanie. My aunt Tracy, My aunt Stacy, My aunt Chris. Am I forgetting anyone? I don't think so. And if you are watching, I forgot. I apologize.

[B]

What's your partner's name?

[D]

I have two partners. Tao and Jacob.

[B]

Up.

[D]

Lovely, lovely people.

[B]

Where'd you go to high school?

[D]

I went to high school at Morrow High School in Ellenwood. Ellenwood, Georgia? No, Mar. I lived in Wood and Mar High School is in Morrow, Georgia. But they're like side by side. Like literally side by side.

[B]

Got it. Was your childhood best friend?

[D]

I had a few. Lawrence was one of my childhood best friends. Alicia was a childhood best friend. Chase was a childhood best friend.

[B]

Got it.

[D]

I actually remember when I was in lagrange, Georgia. I had a friend named Avery. And I realized one day me and Avery couldn't be friends anymore.

[B]

Why?

[D]

Because on the bus in lagrange, Georgia, I was feeling particularly religious. One day I just looked at Avery and I said, I just love Jesus. Don't you? And Avery said, not really.

[B]

Wow. That's why you unfriended Avery.

[D]

He was talking crazy about my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. And I said, you're telling me that you don't? And he was like, no, not really. And then I turned. So I found out Avery was Muslim. And then I looked at this other girl. I was like, what about you? Do you love Jesus? She was like, not really. Buddhist.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[D]

And I remember thinking to myself, I am in a den of sin.

[B]

I don't think I've ever in my life met a Buddhist or someone who practiced Buddhism. I don't think. I. Like, if they have identified, they are

[D]

from New York City. But you never met a Buddhist.

[B]

Maybe I did. They did not identify themselves to me, so I did not know they were Buddhists. I was going to say, I may have met him, but I'm not like,

[D]

I think Buddhists advertise the way other religions do.

[B]

And Jews and Muslims.

[D]

Yeah, they really advertise with. With like iconography and like music. And I. I've never noticed a Buddhist to advertise in the way that Judeo Christian religions do. And I don't know if Islam is considered Judeo Christian religion.

[B]

I'm mad at you.

[D]

Mad at me for what?

[B]

I'm upset about what? Because you did not tell me that there is a role in Jesus Christ Superstar. That is for me. I did not know that. I thought that there was nothing I could do in the show.

[D]

This is crazy. I literally told you there's some. Jacob wrote Satan. No, I told you. I have told you.

[B]

Which role?

[D]

The priest.

[B]

No, that's not the one who. Caiaphas, the priest.

[D]

Oh, my God.

[A]

I don't know.

[B]

I didn't know. I know he was the priest. Priest. I thought that his name was Caiaphas. I thought the role was the priest.

[D]

No, he. So there are several priests. Caiaphas and Annis are the main two priests. And they have a bunch of other priests that go along with them. And it's the one with the. With the. He's like, what then to do about this Jesus mania? You get the high voice and then Kaibus goes. One thing I'll say for him, Jesus is cool.

[B]

One thing I'll say for him. Jesus is cool.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And I have Jesus Christ of a. Get you get your girl.

[D]

By the way, I have literally told you this.

[B]

Well, you said the priest. I didn't know his name was Caiaphas. I thought, like, the role was the priest.

[D]

Do you want to apologize again? You're one away from a handshake.

[B]

You know what? I don't want the handshake. Well, because it won't feel sincere.

[D]

But do you want to apologize for accusing me of not telling you what I've told you about the priest? Cuz I knew you wouldn't know their name. Cuz I know you're not Christian. You weren't raised in the church. You're a heathen like Avery.

[B]

Is that Caiaphas with the pin with the pointing? Yeah.

[D]

I mean, I don't know what Caiaphas look like in real life. I just know what he looks like at the. What do you call it? The Hollywood Bowl. He was like, six foot five, hot. The guy who played Caiaphas at the Hollywood bowl was a very tall man.

[B]

Can I tell you what? I hook up with this, I'm like, this is a Patreon exclusive. Exclusive.

[D]

Well, then we'll talk about it afterwards. Yeah, you know what? We're at an hour. For those of you who want to know what Monet's about to say about this hookup, we'll see you on Patreon.